Film

Happy New Year everyone!

Doctor Who

• End of Time – Part 2 most loved by women and older men
• Murray Gold to write series five music and theme
• 10.4m people watch End of Time – Part 2

Film

• English language trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Inception
• Trailer for Shrek: How To Train Your Dragon
• James McAvoy to play Ian Fleming?
• The Thing prequel to begin shooting in March
• Trailer for Rhys Ifans’s Howard Marks biopic, Mr Nice
• Pics from The Eagle of the Ninth

Theatre

• Life on Mars (US)’s Jason O’Mara to star in Serenading Louie at the Donmar

British TV

• Jam and Jerusalem cancelled
• Top Gear most watched programme on the iPlayer
• Day of the Triffids gets 5.6m viewers
• New Year’s Eve ratings
• STV to start showing ITV1 dramas again
• BBC claims to generate £7.6bn for Britain
• Beeb in talks to bring back Gavin & Stacey next Christmas…
• …after 8.7m viewers watch the finale
• Hamlet only gets 896,000 viewers

US TV

• Julie Benz to join Desperate Housewives for at least three episodes [spoilers for Dexter]
• Year-end ratings for the cable networks: USA grows audience 15%
• Law & Order gets a 21st season
• Kevin Alejandro joins True Blood
• Casting on Retired at 35
• Catherine McCormack and Stacy Keach to co-star on FX’s Lights Out
• Luke Wilson and Diane Ladd to co-star in Laura Dern’s Enlightened
• Kim Raver joins Grey’s Anatomy full-time